* Over 8 million households without electric power in 17 US states
* SCOTUS hearsKirtsaeng v. Wiley challenge to first sale doctrine
* Supreme Court rejects appeal in Oklahoma "fetal personhood" case
* Obama executive order after Senate report on DHS "fusion centers"
* Stock Exchange closed two days for weather; first time since 1888

* Entire New York subway closed after being flooded with salt water
* Hurricane Sandy as seen from International Space Station [video]
* Bank of England senior official praises role of Occupy Movement
* Journalist arrested in Greece for list of Swiss account holders
* Unmanned Dragon space capsule leaves ISS for Pacific splashdown

* New Yorker Magazine on the myth of voter fraud in the United States
* Still obscure Stingraywarrantless tracker simulates cellphone tower
* Condoleezza Rice addresses attempt to politicize attack on US embassy
* Chrysler rebuts Mitt Romney's claim of Jeep production moving to China
* New York Times site blocked in China after report on Premier's wealth

* 150,000 march to London's Hyde Park against government austerity
* World's first colour moving pictures were made in Britain in 1902
* "Master keys" to the infrastructure of New York City sold on eBay
* TSA removes "backscatter" X-ray body scanners from major airports
* Center for Copyright Information is behind US "six strikes" plan

* Out of character Colbert talks about presidential race on Meet The Press
* Springsteen hits campaign trail on behalf of Obama beginning October 16
* Citations from 150 US government publications that mentioned Wikileaks
* Conditions during Morning Glory cloud formation in Gulf of Carpenteria
* New Zealand photographer John Crawford's series called "Aerial Nudes"

* Summary of the John Stewart vs Bill O'Reilly Rumble with video clips
* Summary of divisions & independence movements in the European Union
* Code Pink joined Imran Khan in nine-mile convoy to South Waziristan
* Founders decided which parts of Bible to include in US Constitution
* My pictures near the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Banjo Stage

* Federal real-time surveillance of social networks jumped 80% in one year
* Judge throws out 92 Occupy Chicago convictions on First Amendment grounds
* Trial of Pope's butler Paolo Gabriele being held under 19th century code
* Israeli Prime Minister holds upan image of a bomb at the United Nations
* New Zealand Prime Minister apologizes to Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom

* Obama: If you want to be president, you have to work for everybody
* Legal battle between NSA and group of non-terrorist AT&T customers
* Researchers find association between obesity & urinary bisphenol A
* Chicago teachers union votes to suspend strike; in class tomorrow
* Winners of the National Geographic Traveler 2012 photo contest

* Democratic administrations top those of Republicans in job creation
* Sen. Sanders interview with Bill Moyers after Democratic convention
* Costs that corporations impose on society for which they do not pay
* Tornados touch down in New York City boroughs of Brooklyn & Queens
* Montana medical marijuana activist Tom Daubert receives probation

* Judge says sniffing unencrypted WiFi connections is not wiretapping
* Google Maps increases resolution of satellite imagery in 60 regions
* Short video on the production of titanium gears for Curiosity rover
* NSA periodical on the search for foundations of cybersecurity [PDF]
* 1859 photo of two people would be the 2nd known of Emily Dickenson